Geraldine (Jerry) Berrios works in the online department at the Los Angeles Daily News. A Puerto Rican native, she grew up in Sarasota, Florida. Jerry majored in broadcast journalism and Spanish at The American University in Washington, D.C. Before her journalism career, she worked in sports public relations. Jerry has a masters in print journalism from Columbia University in New York City. A Knight-Ridder internship took her to three newspapers in a year - the Contra Costa Times, the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader and the Kansas City Star. She worked in the Broward bureaus of The Miami Herald from 2000 to 2007. Reporting highlights from South Florida include interviewing Vanilla Ice in his driveway, covering a 13-hour Hollywood committee meeting and watching a tiger get a root canal. In October 2007, she was hired as a reporter by the Los Angeles Daily News. After being laid off in 2009, she returned to the paper as an online content producer later that year. She lives with her husband and her dog, Sweet Pea, in Valencia.

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